According to Edison Research data presented by Cumulus Media exec Pierre Bouvard in his recent “Audioscape 2022” research presentation, among U.S. respondents in the 18-34 age group, of weekly time spent listening to talk/personality audio content, podcasts now receive 60%… Continue Reading
Eight years after the podcast “Serial” entranced listeners as podcasting’s first hit podcast, a Baltimore judge yesterday ordered the release of the show’s subject, Adnan Syed, who has been incarcerated for the past 23 years after being convicted of the… Continue Reading
The Sweden-based leading podcast platform Acast announced yesterday that it intends to lay off about 15% of its workforce, initiating deliberations during September, as part of a plan to shift towards the creation of profitable growth in line with the… Continue Reading
Organized by Radiodays Europe and the team behind the Australian and British Podcast Awards, plans are shaping up for the second annual “Podcast Day 24” event — a hybrid live-in-person and virtual conference taking place in three major global cities… Continue Reading
Consulting and research firm Jacobs Media released the results of its “Public Radio Techsurvey 2022” last week at the Public Radio Program Directors (PRPD) Content Conference in New Orleans, with what commercial radio Techsurvey co-sponsor All Access called “a mostly… Continue Reading
One of the nation’s leading classical music stations, New York Public Radio’s WQXR, has hired Elizabeth Nonemaker as Executive Producer of its podcasting efforts, the station announced yesterday. According to WQXR Chief Content Officer and Senior VP Ed Yim, the… Continue Reading
According to a report from Deadline yesterday, podcast studio Cadence13 has hired Patton Valentine, a veteran executive from the TV world, to help it pitch its podcasts as potential bases of film and TV projects. He joins Audacy-owned Cadence13 from… Continue Reading
New York-based ad monitoring service Media Monitors has released its Q2 report of “Top 200 [U.S.] Podcasts,” “Top Publishers,” and “Top 10 [Podcast] Categories,” with the top five podcasts being “The Joe Rogan Experience” (publisher: Joe Rogan), “Crime Junkie” (audiochuck),… Continue Reading
Here are five podcasts that you might find enjoyable, interesting, curious, and/or inspiring. If you host, publish, or listen to a podcast that you’d like to recommend for this new recurring feature in RAIN, drop a line to kurt@accuradio.com. (For… Continue Reading
Broadcast and podcast ad sales company AdLarge Media announced today that Matt Turck, co-founder of Megaphone (acquired by Spotify in December of 2020) has joined their has leadership team as Head of Podcast Growth and Strategy According to the announcement:… Continue Reading
In a weekend posting on the NPR.com website, the broadcaster looked back on its 17 years of activity in the podcasting space, including the podcast directory it launched in August 2005. As the article, “Nearly forgotten today, alt.NPR was a… Continue Reading
Boston-based serial entrepreneur Paul English has sold his latest venture, podcast discovery app Moonbeam, to Audacy, with plans to plow the proceeds into his newly launched startup incubator, the Boston Globe reported this week. According to the paper, “English declined to… Continue Reading